Program of GUTs and Strings 2010

30 min. talk + 15 min. discussion.
The workshop takes place in the lecture hall of the MPI (ground floor, turn right after entering the building).

Wed. 10.2. Thu. 11.2. Fri. 12.2
9.30 - 10.15 Schellekens
Heterotic Weight Lifting
Heckman
Signatures of Minimal F-theory GUTs
Nilles
The discrete beauty of local grand unification
10.15 - 11.00 Lebedev
Heterotic NMSSMs
Quevedo
Phenomenological aspects of toric singularities
Kobayashi
Phenomenology of magnetized extra dimensions
11.00 - 11.30 coffee break
11.30 - 12.15 Schäfer-Nameki
F-theory GUTs in Three Steps
Raby
Moduli stabilization and SUSY breaking in heterotic orbifold string models
Watari
Flavor structure in F-theory
12.15 - 13.00 Hebecker
D7-Brane Moduli vs. F-Theory Cycles
Buchmüller
Measuring the GUT Scale with Moduli Masses
Dudas
Non-perturbative vacuum destabilisation and D-brane dynamics
13.00 - 14.30 lunch break
14.30 - 15.15 Marsano
Constraining F-theory GUTs
Cvetic
Landscape of Realistic MSSM's from Orientifold Compactifications
Ovrut
U(1) Symmetry in Smooth Heterotic Vacua
15.15 - 16.00 Weigand
Compact F-theory model building
Jockers
Effective Couplings for type II, F-theory and heterotic strings
Goodsell
Shining a light on hidden sectors
16.00 - 16.30 coffee break
16.30 - 17.15 Conlon
Holomorphy Constraints on Local GUTs
Marchesano
Non-perturbative effects on seven-brane Yukawa couplings
Taylor
Strings at LHC and in the Sky
17.15 - 18.00 Trapletti
The MSSM from a Z2xZ2 compactification of the heterotic string
Grimm
Global F-theory GUTs and N=1 dualities
Wijnholt
Coupling Unification Revisited/MSW Quantum Cohomology
19.30 Dinner Georgenhof
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